Educational appliance for practicing penmanship



S. SORBY. EDUCATIONAL APPLIANCE FOR FRACTICING FENMANSHIP.

APPLICATION FILED JAN- 7, '1920.

Patented Aprl25, 1922.

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Application filed-January 7,1920. Serial No. sea-9G5.

To all whom it may concern:

Be'it known'that'LSIevAR'r Sonny, citizen of Norway, residing at Skytebane'n, Kongsberg, Norway, have invented certain-new and useful Improvements in Educational Appliances for Practicing Penmanship, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to educational appliances for the practicing of a correct writing of letters of the alphabet and'other characters.

The object of the invention is to accustom the hand mechanically to follow the correct lines of the different letters and other charac-' ters, so that the drawing up after a copyslip is avoided. A further object of the invention is to accustom the pupil to excercise the pressure upon the correct parts of the letter. I

With these objects in view the letters and other characters areengraved or hollowed out in plates of a suitable material, so that their lines or curves may be followed with a suitable pin or the like. In such places in which the lines have to be written with pressure, the trace or groove is, deepened, so that the pin sinks deeper when following the groove.

It is also suitable upon the plates near by the engraved letters to indicate in which.

direction the writing has to take place and in'which succession the different strokes or This may be effected by marking the difi'erent parts of a letter with numbers, which are placed near by the different spots, upon which the drawing up of the several parts of the letter has to begin.

V The invention also'has for its-object to provide a suitable pin. or pencil to be used when practicing the writing.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 shows the practice-or exercise plate for'the letter S-, seen from above.

Figure 2 is a section after the line II-II of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section after the line IIIIlI of Figure 1. I

Figure 4 shows the exercise-plate for the letter --F. l

Figure 15 shows a suitable exercise-pin for practicing the writing. I V

The different letters and other characters which sh all be practicedjai'e engraved upon letter F.

places.

Specifida'tioniof Letters 'Patent. Patented A 25%"1922 or hollowed out -in plates of a suitor ,groove is preferably v-shaped in crossable material, preferably brass. The trace section as will distinctly. be seen in Figure l '2. The bottom of the engraved groove is has to be written in more strokes, the point of beginning of the difierent strokes are marked 1n the succession, in which they shall be written with a, b, c, etc., resp., l, 277, 317,, 4, which shows the exercise plate for the By following the engraving or groove with a sultable pin the hand will become acous tomed to the correct drawing upv of the difetc., as will be seen from Figure ferent. strokes, and will'also, owing to the inclined bottom of the groove, be accustomed to lay increased pressure upon the'correct For the exercise a pin of any suitable kind may be used, such, for instance, as the one shown in Fig. 5 and indicated by the numeral 3. The point must not be too sharp so as to cause scratches inthe groove and it may be kept in a suitably sharpened condition by means of a file. The tendency of the extreme point of, the pin to wear-away incident to prolonged use of the device is minimized by the cross sectional V-shape of the groove, the inclined side walls of which wear down the sides of the pin and maintain the point in proper condition. Furthermore, the cross sectional V-shape of thegroove'maintains thepoint in proper centered position therein and enhances the efiiciency of the appliance.

- Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention', V

and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim-isz- I 1. An educational appliance for practic-' ing penmanship consisting of a plate having grooves therein representative of the characters used in penmanship and constituting guides for an exercising implement, said I grooves being V-shaped in cross section penmanship consisting of a plate having grooves therein representative of characters used in penmanship and constituting guides for an exercising implement, the several grooves composing the character having indicia arranged at the starting point of the several grooves, said indicia denoting the succession in Which the strokes composing the character should be made.

3. An educational appliance for practicing enmanship consisting of a plate having grooves therein representative of characters used in pemnanship and constituting guides) for an exercising implement, portions of SIGVART SORBY. Witnesses AXEL LAHN, HAUS HALL. 

